European Parliament 5 December 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION P-3556/02 by Dorette Corbey (PSE) to the Commission. Environmental agreements.

In this context, on 20 December 2002 the Commission forwarded to the European Parliament and to the Council a proposal for a regulation2 aimed at prohibiting the transport of heavy fuel products in single- hull tankers bound for or leaving the ports of the Union, to shorten the period adopted as part of the Erika I package within which single-hull tankers must be withdrawn and to impose